COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 



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LAOPHONTE MOHAMMED Blanchard and Richard 



FlGtTBE 167 



LaopJionfe niohammed Blanchabd and Richard, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 

 4, p. 526, pi. 6, figs. 1-16, 1891. 



Occv/rrence. — Both sexes obtained in small numbers from the 

 French Watering Place, Naushon Island, August, 1925 ; from one of 

 the brackish ponds on Chappaquiddick Island, August, 1925; from 

 Gosnold Upper Pond, Cuttyhunk Island, July, 1926; from Oyster 

 Pond, Falmouth, July, 1926, a single male from Nashaquitsa Pond, 

 Marthas Vineyard, August, 1926. 



Figure 167. — Laophonte mohammed : a. Female, dorsal; h, female, first antenna; 

 c, male, first antenna ; d, male, second antenna ; e, male, maxilliped ; f, female, 

 first leg ; g, female, fifth leg ; h, i, j, k, male, first, third, fourth, and fifth 

 and sixth legs 



Distnhution. — Algeria (Blanchard and Kichard) ; Germany (van 

 Douwe). 



Color. — Body grayish white and fairly transparent, without pig- 

 ment markings ; eggs dark gray ; eye ruby red. 



Female. — Body wide anteriorly and tapering quite regularly back- 

 ward ; cephalic segment longer than the rest of the metasome, widest 

 posteriorly, with lateral sinuses indicating the division between head 

 and first segment. Body segments distinct, raised dorsally and 

 covered with fine short hairs, each segment with several small 

 processes along its posterior margin ; urosome three-fifths as long as 

 metasome; genital segment distinctly divided; basal abdominal seg- 

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